Aging and Health Technology Watch blogs

Life expectancy has grown and so has the percent of older adults living alone.  Despite the oft-repeated life expectancy at birth of 79, the older population is living longer.  At age 65, both women and men will likely live on av...

Check-in apps -- is it because the baby boomers are turning 80? Is it because many baby boomers are living alone? Is it the rise of

At the end of the day, the most important news may be hyperlocal. On Election Day 2026, one might think those results matter greatly to most people who stay close to the hour-by-hour news updates. But what if their

You don’t really think much about it anymore – voice is just there. Today you are used to speaking to devices – tapping a microphone in an app, saying a wake word like Siri or Alexa, getting an increasingly smart response.  No update required. 

Ask and you shall receive – approximately.   How many health apps are available for the iPhone? Says Google – there are 60,000 health apps (eliminating the medical category) in the App Store. Grok says 76,451, ChatGPT says 82,000. And ChatGPT, as a good spy, went a step further, though not asked – claiming that there is no official count of apps for aging in...